The fourth official patch is out for the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One versions of NBA 2K15.

Patch Notes

(XB1) Online games will no longer disconnect during gameplay when one or more users had minimized the title and returned while sitting on the Team Select screen prior to playing.

Made a number of improvements to the player progression/regression systems that drive player ratings in MyGM/MyLEAGUE/MyCAREER.

Fixed a rare case where the user team would trade for the upcoming pick mid-draft (MyGM/MyLEAGUE), but the team that traded away the pick would retain the rights to the player.

Fixed an issue where some users were unable to access specific Online Leagues.

Removed “auto-hesitation” dribble animations that played when driving near defenders. Smoothed out the sprint to jog transition in the back court.

Tuned shot percentages for a more obvious distinction between open and covered shots. Slight increase to contact dunk frequency for high level dunkers.

Corrected an issue in MyTEAM where improved player badges were not appearing in the correct color when viewing a head-to-head game. The correct badge level with appropriate gameplay adjustments are now being made.

The ‘Bruiser’ and ‘Hardened’ badges will now unlock properly in MyCAREER when the appropriate conditions are met.

Fixed a rare case where some users would occasionally see the title hang during the series of legal screens at the start of the game.

(XB1) Corrected an issue where Park Chat through the My NBA 2K15 app would not work for some users.

(XB1) Fixed an issue where a user’s gamertag would not update in the Roster Creator interface when the gamertag was changed outside of the title.

Be sure to post any impressions and issues with the latest update here in this thread!

This isn't an issue exclusive to 2K. Almost every game requires re-installation of mods with new patches. Hell, with certain games like Minecraft, the mods have to be re-written entirely to support the games updates. We were just spoiled with last-gen 2K as far as modding goes.

The game movements feel more fluid to me. No fps drops, no court-skating, no instant movements into the animation

@TBM. You said something about my logic in the last thread. Actually, gameplay updates are things that satisfy me in a new patch. Some new face updates would be nice since before the game was realeased, it was confirmed that 2k would update player looks "regulary" to match the real life. That happened once and 2k had bad luck. They've updated players that after the patch came back to their default looks (Gortat and Andersen) or ended their season ( Carmelo and Larry Sanders). Lillard is on point though

Also, 2k should remember about the pride and update some damn courts. AA Arena still has bad logo colours, Oracle Arena is not even close, TD Garden and Barclays Center look like some bad replicas in Las Vegas.

If the shoe glitch was the only thing getting fixed in a patch, it would've been a baaad thing for 2k. Not everyone plays my career. But as long as I am right and the patch also features some minor gameplay updates, I am happy it was released and I will reinstall all the mods

Like TBM said, it's very common for games to remove any mods after official patch. Unless it directly supports mods like Bethesda's games or Workshop enabled titles.

I am definitelly looking forward to see the patch notes (once released), though I'm gonna play MyCareer mode of LocalCityLeague 2K15 in the evening Ronnie 2K said he's gonna release the notes probably after he returns to US. He should be in Europe for 2 more days though.

hopefully with the 4th patch comes out ,...you must update also..... Boston,Denver,Clippers,Miami,Pacers,Dallas,Utah,court........see it for yourself,....comparing from LIVE 15 there are all current court and realistic....

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Go to game on steam library and select "check files" Steam will download again files with u patch and works normal again.

Of course, patches are gone.

I went to Steam, go to Library tab, right click on NBA 2k15 but I see no option for "check files". Help!

Right Click on the game on library - Properties - Local Files - Verify integrity of game cache. That should do it. The game will scan the whole game for missing or corrupted files and will replace them all. It could take a while

Shooting mechanics got changed drastically! Wide open jumpers, regardless of perfect release or not, will get much better grades and thus go in much more often. On the other side, if a shot is contested, the shooting grade goes down to D or less very quickly.

To give some insight on the actual tuning that I made... here's essentially what happened.

The shot heuristics are pretty complex but at a basic level, pre-patch the numbers looked something like this for a decent shooter at mid-range:Wide open = 45%Fully Contested = 35%Heavily Contested = 10%

That's why many people complained that "being open" didn't really matter much, and they were right. Post-patch, that same shooter is now:Wide open = 60%Fully Contested = 20%Heavily Contested = 10%

So over the course of the game, assuming both teams shoot an even spread of open and contested jumpers, you should've seen zero change to your end of game shot percentages when comparing pre and post patch. But if you trend hard one way or the other (all your shots are open or all your shots are contested), you would've seen a very noticeable change. Now I also fixed the "glitched" shots being unable to get perfect release, so that will factor in as well.

But if both teams play solid defense, I can believe that a player might go 80% from the field from time to time, but it definitely shouldn't be the norm. Also, in case you're wondering, I didn't touch 3PT percentages at all, only layup, close and mid-range values.

From the feedback, it seems like head to head play is much closer to what I'm looking for in terms of making the game more fun and users are rewarded for getting high quality looks. But if you guys are torching the AI offline, you might have to do some slider tweaking for this year and get in Da Czar and OG's ears to ensure the AI puts up a better fight in 2K16.

Just played my first game with patch #4 last night, Orl (me) @ Chi (AI). I was knocking down the 3's like nobody's business with Victor Oladipo, Tobias Harris, and Maurice Harkless. These guys are not exactly knock-down shooters. I even nailed 2/each with Vucevic and Payton. End of regulation was Orl-162, Chi-98. 3-pointers are overpowered now.

Andrew wrote:As per Beluba's post on OS, tweaking the sliders may be in order if you're lighting up the AI too much.

it seems the focus of the patch was for online play and they forgot the offline for whatever judging from the quote that was posted.

i haven't tested the new patch yet but when i do, i hate that i have to tweaked the sliders since i'm perfectly fine with the simulation sliders and since i have a current association going, i may have no choice.

shadowgrin wrote:Quick question: who is better in basketball, a black dude or a pinoy dude. If you thought or considered for a moment that it's the black dude then you're also a little bit racist.

You certainly can tell the difference in open three point percentage. It's probably a little too high without slider tweaks, but as that's always been the weakest part of my game, I must admit that I don't mind too much.

"Tuned shot percentages for a more obvious distinction between open and covered shots. Slight increase to contact dunk frequency for high level dunkers." basically means "Turned the game into a bad copy of NBA Jam because the majority of our players are too dumb to play sim basketball. Additional feauture: The game is now feels like it was released in 2003 by EA".

beachboys wrote:"Tuned shot percentages for a more obvious distinction between open and covered shots. Slight increase to contact dunk frequency for high level dunkers." basically means "Turned the game into a bad copy of NBA Jam because the majority of our players are too dumb to play sim basketball. Additional feauture: The game is now feels like it was released in 2003 by EA".

NBA LIVE 2003 WAS THE SHIT!!

shadowgrin wrote:Quick question: who is better in basketball, a black dude or a pinoy dude. If you thought or considered for a moment that it's the black dude then you're also a little bit racist.

does anyone know if they ever fixed the animation that you get stuck in when the player brings the ball up court (skipping along directing teammate traffic)? they added it in one of the patches, and people including myself complained about the bad job they did.